Hold the Roses, by Rose Marie
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We all remember Rose Marie as the wisecracking Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show , or recognize her from her perch in the top middle square on Hollywood Squares, but not everyone knows her career in show business has spanned almost seventy years. At the tender age of three Rose Marie Mazzetta was entered in an amateur contest at New York City's Mecca Theatre. Her rendition of "What Can I Say Dear, After I Say I'm Sorry?" won, and her career was launched. She stayed "Baby Rose Marie" until she was well into her teens, singing in nightclubs, on vaudeville stages, on the radio, and in the movies. It was a glamorous but difficult life-she worked side by side with legends such as Al Jolson, Milton Berle, and W.C. Fields, and was watched over by "Uncle" Al Capone and his associates-but her father managed her career and personal life with an iron fist, gambling her earnings away and abusing her and any boy foolish enough to show an interest in the family meal ticket.
Hold the Roses, by Rose Marie- Amazon Sales Rank: #803184 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .62" w x 5.98" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
From Publishers Weekly The wisecracking sidekick of The Dick Van Dyke Show and regular player on Hollywood Squares recounts a fortunate life cleanly lived in this conversational memoir. Born illegitimately in 1923 in a New York railroad tenement as Rose Marie Mazzetta, she won a talent contest at age three and quickly became a radio star as Baby Rose Marie, the "kid who sings like Sophie Tucker." Signing with NBC and the top vaudeville circuits, she (and her parents) dodged child labor laws, and Baby Rose Marie appeared for the next few years with headliners Rudy Vallee and Dick Powell. Through her father (who was well acquainted with "the boys"), she met "Uncle Al" Capone, who kissed her cheek and told her, " `If you ever need me for anything, tell your father to call me.' " After growing up and becoming Miss Rose Marie, there were club dates, a Broadway stint and a happy marriage to trumpeter Bobby Guy. She went on to ham it up as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and here praises all the principals but doesn't discuss specific show highlights, instead focusing on the friendships (although she wasn't close with Mary Tyler Moore) and remembering everyone's kindness when her husband died. She then recollects her years on Hollywood Squares, her work with Doris Day and Ethel Merman, an affair and the resolution of her multiyear spat with Tim Conway. Though thin on personal commentary and insight, the book's fast pace and happy memories will please Rose Marie's fans. 30 b&w illus. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author Rose Marie lives in California.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Between the pages of this book you will find the story of a sixty-five-year career in show business. I started working as a child star on radio, performed on vaudeville, grew up to play the big night clubs and hotels, and graduated to working with all of the greats of show business—Jolson, Benny, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, Phil Silvers, and Milton Berle, to name a few.
I was raised by a mother who was a naïve, Polish lady who believed everything she was told. My father was a tyrant who had another family and never married my mother. He gambled away all the money I made as a child, and my mother never knew a thing about it. He beat me because he was jealous of anybody I ever went out with. I eloped with a musician who tried, in every way, to prove to my parents that he was a good man and who went through hell because my father feared losing his meal ticket—me. My marriage of twenty years was the best thing that ever happened to me. We moved to California and a whole new life of respect, love, happiness, and security. We had a beautiful daughter.
I love and respect show business. We have been inseparable all of my life. Here I tell the intimate stories of my years in the business, the hardships and the good times and how they shaped my character and my career. I also tell about some of the so-called Big Stars who are angels to the public and anything but in real life. Most people don’t know that I was helped by Mafia influences (Al Capone, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel, and Joe Adonis). I opened the Flamingo Hotel for Bugsy Siegel when I was 6 months pregnant and Vegas was still primarily a desert and the Flamingo was only the third hotel there.
During the lean years I struggled to keep my career going because if I didn’t work, we didn’t eat. Later I struggled to become an actress on TV and in the movies so I could stay home with my husband and daughter. I appeared on series and variety shows. I never stopped working. I refused to give up.
This book is not your usual Hollywood memoir. It is not about who I screwed but rather who screwed me!
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful. I couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end By George McGrath I read a lot of autobiographies, and "Hold the Roses" is one of the most candid and well written I've read. Rose Marie has not only lived a very interesting life; she's written a very entertaining book. I knew her as part of the sentence "I'll take Rose Marie to block" from her regular appearances on Hollywood Squares. I knew she had been on "The Dick van Dyke Show" and knew very little else about her. I didn't know about Baby Rose Marie, the little girl born out of wedlock who became a star on radio and in vaudeville; whose father didn't marry her mother but supported his "real family" by managing her career until he tried to have her killed. She did more than rub elbows with the famous and infamous of her day. And as interesting as her show business recollections are, the book recounts a love story that is both funny and touching. Rose Marie has had an incredible career. And she's topped it off by writing a wonderful book. I'm so glad I read it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Strong start, weak finish [Small spoiler] By AppleFan Unfortunately, what started as an absorbing story of a precocious child singer/humorist faded in the finish. I agree with another review in which it was commented that she focused too little on her tenure with Dick Van Dyke and Hollywood Squares, despite these being the shows for which she is best known and remembered by the most people.***SPOILER***After the death of her husband, Buddy in the course of the narrative, Rose Marie seemed to run out of steam, and I got the feeling she was just trying to get the book finished after that. What followed was a laundry list of bookings she had and people with whom she performed, but little animation or enthusiasm. This may be understandable, but it was also disappointing. Still, the book is worth reading if only for the frank and incredibly detailed recounting of her childhood. [It would have been interesting to know who kept such apparently impeccable records of all of her appearances, especially the many early ones.]
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Great Stories from a Class Act By A Customer Rose Marie's life spans the greatest years of vaudeville, radio, talkies, Broadway, nightclubs, Vegas, and TV. Incredibly Rose Marie rose to the top of each medium - not sure if anyone else can even make that claim. With this book you hear the entire history of twentieth century show business told by someone who lived it. Great stories about Capone, Bugsy Segal, Al Jolson, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Dyke and Milton Berle. I highly recommend this book.
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